Aim of this articles is to display records from an Microsoft Excel in an ASP. We could use general SQL command while retreving data from an excel sheet. All we need to know how to connect Excel file.
ASP form input can be transformed into most any type of format that you'd like to see it in. Typically, most form input either gets delivered to a database, like Access or SQL server or the output is sent to an email address or some other application. In a previous example we?ve even demonstrated how ASP form input can be used to write a permanent html document directly to the server. ASP Form Input to HTML. In this example we will take user input and create an excel file of that input on the server. The title that the user inputs will be used to name the document, so titles containing !@#$%^&*()+= are invalid. When utilizing this script on your site please keep in mind that the directory that you execute the .asp code from must have user write authority established on the server.
Generating Excel files from web pages or other applications is a major subject in many articles. I'd like to present here some solutions, part of them, already presented and well known. Some of them require MS Excel to be installed on the server, and other not.
The author writes "For small data bits on a server where the chance for significant simultaneous traffic is not likely excel can perform many of the basic tasks that can be accomplished in Access or SQL Server, but on a much smaller scale." This exmaple code demonstrates how to display data from Excel using sample data of Hank Greenberg's career statistics. Example code available for download.
This code example demonstrates how to create excel documents on your server. Using the US state info db, after reading the contents of the db instead of writing output to the browser, html text is written to the server with the .xls file extension. A link to the new document is created (in the browser) for easy navigation to the new document. The current time (server time) is also displayed to show that the excel document was created dynamically.
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